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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the men get ashore at the end of Chapter XVII?
(a) In a different boat
(b) In the boat
(c) They don’t; they return to the Hispaniola
(d) They wade

2. Who does Jim remind Silver of, according to Chapter XVIII?
(a) Flint
(b) Tom
(c) Smollett
(d) A younger version of himself

3. Who joins the honest sailors at the end of Chapter XVI?
(a) Tom
(b) Silver
(c) Abraham
(d) Smollett

4. Who was once Flint’s gunman, according to Chapter XVII?
(a) Abraham
(b) Silver
(c) Israel
(d) Ben

5. What does Silver throw down as a gesture in Chapter XXIX?
(a) The treasure map
(b) His jacket
(c) His black spot
(d) His spyglass

Short Answer Questions

1. How much more food than needed is prepared at the beginning of Chapter XXXI?

2. Who tends to the mutineers every day, according to Chapter XXIX?

3. Where does Jim find himself at the beginning of Chapter XXIV?

4. Who is angry with Jim, according to Silver in Chapter XVIII?

5. Why does Jim have trouble sailing at the beginning of Chapter XXIII?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Jim and Israel sail the ship at the beginning of Chapter XXVI?

2. What deal does Israel make with Jim in Chapter XXV?

3. How does Silver announce himself to Smollett in Chapter XX?

4. Why does Silver allow Livesey and Jim to speak privately in Chapter XXX?

5. Why does Livesey go walking in the woods in Chapter XXII?

6. Why do the pirates not notice that Jim cuts the anchor rope on the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

7. What does Silver say Jim reminds him of in Chapter XXVIII?

8. Why do the sailors say Tom has nothing to fear in the afterlife?

9. Why is Ben sure the honest sailors are in the stockade in Chapter XIX?

10. Why is it useless for Jim to paddle to shore at the beginning of Chapter XXIV?

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